A ride to my solitude putting my "Thinking Helmet" on

It was drizzling and I was driving... Went to Spencer Plaza, loved the place, has its charm on it's own way. Kinda cozy but very local and close to my heart. Got stuck at landmark, found my lost love to books which used to be my best friend once upon a time before these IT days :D.

I remember, it was books which was always with me in every moments of my life, when I was sad to cheer me up, when I was happy to make me happier, when I was alone to give me company, when I was with friends to provide me enough wisdom to continue random discussion. I am talking about the days when Google was not part of my life, and trust me, Google is such a spoilsport in that way! That too in smartphones. Very annoying sometimes, you are having a discussion with your friends, suddenly someone pops out a smart phone and then the Google search result - end of the discussion. Kind of looses the charm of argument over a topic where you try to support your opinion with some fact from your limited wisdom and random bluffs and everyone fights for it. Most of the time, I remember, eventually the main topic used to get away from the discussion and some other random topic took the place. The transition was so smooth, sometime you wouldn't realize. Also, eventually the people who started the actual discussion got away and their supporters continued to fight. So, it goes like this, you make statement A, your friend objects and makes statement B as the supporting clause, and then you starts arguing about the justification of statement B and someone else makes statement C to support statement A then you take the back sit and other two people continue from B to C to D and so on.... Now what you don't realize that it deviates from the actual statement A which gets lost over the time and a new set of people might continue fighting on statement Z. It's like the genetics, heredity stuff we read in biology... Children gets 50% genes of each of the parent, and then grand children will have 25% of their grand parents and so on.. It's like, you know that you are carrying the legacy but then you don't know how much of purity of the actual idea exists there. Story of killing a small insects by me has a possibility of becoming a legendary epic story of fighting till death to kill some monsters to my great great great (continues) grand children. I guess that's how we got most of the epic stories about our great great ancestors. Might or might not be true, but who cares as long it is entertaining :)

Now! did you realize the even my chain of thoughts got shifted from what I was actually talking about - books. Well it can be titled as "chain of thoughts" which has a high probability of becoming "chain of wild thought" depending on my imagination capability and that is where books were with me in those days. It taught me to think, imagine, dream and even day-dream (which I still do)... It used sooth the pain of getting punished for not doing homework due to reading some good story.It used feel so worth to let go your homework and the aftereffects for reading stories, comics or anything random which not tagged as "textbook". Remembrance of old days...

Lost my way home while coming back, went near Parry's to Perrier Bridge to some army area to Marina Beach to Beach Road and my way home - leads to a 40 km ride. Amazing road - no traffic at 11 pm AND... it was drizzling... Now that's another interesting experience. I call it as "I put my thinking helmet on". Whenever I am on the road with less or no traffic, no hassle of break-clutch-accelerator trio, as in, a smooth ride, the "chain of thought" process as mentioned earlier gets triggered. That is like my own solitude in motion, moments of look into myself inner-self, a small break or quick disconnect from normal/random activity of my own life. Quite a few times it helped me to think through stuff which otherwise was not happening. So whenever I am stuck, here I go putting my "Thinking Helmet" on a ride to my solitude through the amazing roads of lovely city called Chennai  :)

FIFA 2010 songs: So many variations...

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Aamir Khan's surprise visit to Sourav's house in Kolkata

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Doesn't matter what you drive but how you drive

This video made me very upset this morning. I mean we know all the bad things of life but sometime just forget. When the same thing is in front of us, we get shocked. This video is so sad but still don't know how many people would learn from it. I mean rash-driving, drink&drive, drive without wearing seat belts are so common nowadays, seems like breaking the rules itself has become a rule. People don't understand that even though these are rules but still they are for our own safety. In fact I would say, these safety measures have become rules because of a huge number of irresponsible, careless and stupid people who become the cause of death to others.



And I would say the punishment should be far stricter and harder that what it is right now. Because whatever that person did is irreversible and irrecoverable. You can't bring that baby back who was an angel to her parents nor you could heal the pain of her parents. But the trick is unless you feel the same pain, you won't learn and will do the same mistakes again - rash-driving, drink&drive etc. So it should be responsibility of the authority that you feel the same pain, realize what a big blunder you have done, learn from that and ensure that it won't happen again. Because if you were driving and survived after the accident caused by you and the other person is dead - one thing you must remember, you have take a life which by no means your job. It could have been YOU but God has given you another chance. So respect that decision. Also I notice that, nowadays people are too lazy to go to give a driving exam to get a license and bribe people to get a driving license. Not sure how many of them would realize what is responsible driving. Hats off to the corruptions which puts spices on this fire. But at the end of all these shortcuts you avail to drive on the road, you miss the vital point, you yourself are putting your life into danger. So my humble request to all the drivers and aspiring drivers, PLEASE think about it twice. Because it doesn't matter what you drive but how you drive.

KGEC - The Beginning, my first iMovie project

This is something I wanted to do for a long time. But could not make it till last night. Finally I am here with my first iMovie video. But life was not that simple to get it done. I had a tough night learning and fighting with the features of iMovie to get what exactly I wanted. Could not find it helpful while editing the audio for it. Thanks to Chandan, he helped me with this by introducing me to Audacity . Also since I was trying to edit an mp3, I had to download LAME MP3 encoder along with audacity. Yah I know, I know, it is going to be little technical. But that is just to express my emotions. I am really happy that I made it finally. Still long way to go. Wait n watch, there are a lot to come yet.

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I am not a frequent blogger. But truly speaking that is what I would like to be. So many things I want to write, I want to tell others, but somehow doesn't happen. Here is another video which made me think for a while that how we take our life, luxury and amenities for granted and just do stupidest things with the precious thing - money. Please put a little pause on your fast moving life and think through it.

Gurdas Maan-cycle new song